The Trump administration has said it plans to “immediately appeal” a judge’s ruling restoring more than $2 billion in federal research funding for Harvard University, signaling that the White House will aggressively continue its efforts to take on elite higher education.
While a federal judge offered Harvard, the only school to take on the White House in court, a landmark victory on Wednesday, there’s still uncertainty ahead for the Ivy League university. And how the administration proceeds could have implications for other financially strained schools that have come under fire.
When the Trump administration froze billions of dollars in research funds this spring, officials argued it was an effort to crack down on antisemitism on campus. But Harvard became the epicenter of a broader fight over federal funding, academic freedom and campus oversight, which is unlikely to end anytime soon.
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